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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
It is a crime under the DMCA which states:
"No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title."
Since stripping DRM is circumventing the DRM, it is definitely covered under the DMCA. No question about it.
Does that mean that anyone is going to actually prosecute an individual who strips DRM from a digital book for their own use? Highly unlikely.
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You have to read the whole law, not just a provision of it. The way many laws are written, they start off with this wholesale forbidding of whatever, and then it gets nuanced away, a piece here distinguished, a piece there, written in Polish Reverse Logic (remember that, you geeks?) in subsection (a)(1)(B)ii, until finally the whole thing is riddled with holes, in order that lawyers can have jobs interpreting the mess.
That's what has happened with the DMCA. It starts off with this Draconian statement, then it turns out that you won't actually go to jail unless you are trying to make some bucks off the process, because that turns out to be the crime.